Recently, I finally got Mandrake 9.1 installed on my dual boot system, but some weird things have been coming up now.

Soon after I boot up but before LILO comes up, a series of 9As get printed to the screen.

Like this:

9A 9A 9A 9A 9A 9A 9A 9A 9A 9A 9A 9A 9A ...and that gets printed until it takes half the screen, and then LILO comes up to boot.

Also, after I choose to boot in Linux, it says Loading Linux.... and it stalls for like 5 minutes, where the dots act like a meter until actual boot up starts.

Any ideas what the problem is?

Thanks for any of your help.

Apparently it's not configured correctly yet. Redo the config file, then run /sbin/lilo for changes to take effect.

LILO mini HOWTO
Multiboot with LILO HOWTO
LILO, Linux Crash Rescue HOW-TO
Installing a bootloader

After reading those blurbs on LILO, I'd like to know: does this configuration seem correct? This is the original state of LILO after installation. Seems the same as those blurbs.

boot=/dev/hdb5
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hdb5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hdb5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hdb5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/hdb1
label="windows2"
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe